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From 6 million eggs to 800,000 at Puberty – How Come?

04:53 7th May 2013 | Motherhood

Mother's Womb Eggs Immature Eggs Puberty Egg Loss Conception Menopause

Sometime in ago we mentioned the decline in the amount of eggs in a female from birth to puberty on  Bridge Clinic Facebook page and this generated interesting comments. I have thus decided to shed more light on this phenomenon here.

In actual fact, a baby girl still in her mother’s womb has about 6-7 million eggs. By birth, the average woman is born with approximately 1.5 million immature eggs. This reduces to about 800,000 at pube...

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